John Dickie-Northampton's dissenting voice

Forty odd years in the local politics of Northampton has brought very few insights and even less understanding of the beast we know as local politics-but from the town that gave the world Bradlaugh-what the hell!

Monday, 2 April 2018

Now is the season for all good conspiracies to come to the aid of the party

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I live a strangely conservative  with a small'c'. At as my want I waste every Sunday reading several newspapers, one is extremely re...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Northamptonshire County Council is once again in La -la land

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For the first time in ages Northamptonshire is becoming newsworthy, it's all over the press, the radio and the television, even BBC Look...
Sunday, 28 January 2018

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Sometimes a film or book arrives just the right time. This week at the Errol Flynn cinema the film'The Post' directed by Steven Sp...
Monday, 25 December 2017

A sad thing to do on Christmas Day.

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It seems almost perverse to write a blog on Christmas Day, okay there is not much television, there are no newspapers today and its many hou...
Monday, 4 December 2017

A not very clever man has taken over the White House, could things get any worse?

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Listening to Trumpy is not something I recommend to anyone of a nervous disposition. Everyday and in every way he seems to be getting more a...
Monday, 6 November 2017

It's about time I spoke again to the Nation

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Well, what a tangled web some people seem to weave.Whose covering what up?In a world dominated by a 'superpower' that manages to ele...
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Sunday, 30 July 2017

PCC – who needs them?

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In a piece in the Times a few days ago Jawad Iqbal, a former BBC executive wrote' Police and crime commissioners, your time is up'. ...
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John Dickie
For 30 years I followed the teaching trade.For the same 30 years I was also a Labour Councillor on Northampton Borough Council.For ten of those years I was leader of Council.On leaving council(all 30 years representing castle ward) I went to WarwickBusiness School and completed a masters in Public Administration(MPA) which included a stint at the Kennedy School of Governance(Harvard) and Georgetown Univ. I was also for a number of years a partner ina small export orientated business.Now I write weekly for the Northampton Chron & Echo and do a little supply teaching when the mood takes me. Have been married almost 40 years to Marie- who left school at 15 and now has a PhD. and was Chair of Northants Police for over a decade and has worked nationally in a number of policing roles.Marie was awarded a well deserved OBE in the 2008 New Years Honours.
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